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• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -- Maugham
• If you would eat well in England, you must eat breakfast three times a day. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
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• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
  -- 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)
• The great truths are too important to be new. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)