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William Somerset Maugham Quotes

«We do not write as we want to but as we can»
«Genius is talent provided with ideals.»
«An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.»
«The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.»
«It was such a lovely day, I thought it a pity to get up»
«I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts»
«If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now»
«People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.»
«It takes two to make a love affair and a man's meat is too often a woman's poison»
«Only a mediocre person is always at his best»

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