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Real Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they…
- For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of…
- There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons…
- Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with…
- As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers…
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