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June 23, 2020

Name: Somerset Maugham
Born: 01/25/1874
Died: 12/16/1965 (91 years old)
Occupation: Playwright, novelist, short story writer

William Somerset Maugham CH (/mɔːm/ MAWM); 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.

Birth Name: William Somerset Maugham

School: Heidelberg University, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School

Alias: William Somerset Maugham

Birth Place: Paris, France

Death Place: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Source: Wikipedia

Somerset Maugham quotes :

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
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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.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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