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• The great truths are too important to be new. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), "A Writer's Notebook" 1949...
• Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• The easiest thing in the world is to be a holy man on a mountain!
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
• [The French Riviera is] a sunny place for shady people. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)