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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. Somerset Maugham
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
W. Somerset Maugham
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
W. Somerset Maugham
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham