W. Somerset Maugham

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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."	God, Stupidity
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."	Love
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."	Quotations
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."	Reading
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."	Anti-God, Books
"Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation."	Success, Life
"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."	Marriage
"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct."	Sex
"A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."	Writing
"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain."	Miscellaneous
"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain."	Quotations
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."	God, Character
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."	Love, Criticism
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."	Success, Imagination
"When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully."	Age
"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."	Love
"The important thing was to love rather than to be loved."	Love
"There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved."	Love
"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."	Mistakes
"He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it."	Money
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Success	Time	Writing