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• Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• I learned that...love was the only dirty trick that nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
  -- William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) "The Summing Up" (1938)...
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell .
  .. their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ....
• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham, "The Circle...
• The easiest thing in the world is to be a holy man on a mountain!
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
• 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, "The Circle...