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• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.
  He lives by makebelieve. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938...
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• Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander it is the most delicate form of dissipation in which man can indulge.
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• The easiest thing in the world is to be a holy man on a mountain!
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• The great truths are too important to be new. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)