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  -- 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)...
• Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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• 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...
• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham