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W. Somerset Maugham

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  1874 - 1965

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• "A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "Impropriety is the soul of wit." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad." - W. Somerset Maugham
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• "You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences." - W. Somerset Maugham
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