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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
W. Somerset Maugham

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Age and Aging
W. Somerset Maugham

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentiment
W. Somerset Maugham

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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Quotations
W. Somerset Maugham

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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
The future
W. Somerset Maugham

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Beauty
W. Somerset Maugham

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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Misfortunes
W. Somerset Maugham

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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Freedom
W. Somerset Maugham

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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
Tolerance
W. Somerset Maugham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
Friends and Friendship
W. Somerset Maugham

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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Resignation
W. Somerset Maugham

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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Laughter
W. Somerset Maugham

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
Consequences
W. Somerset Maugham

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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Adultery
W. Somerset Maugham

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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
Weakness
Francois Mauriac

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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Affection
Andre Maurois

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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Conversation
Andre Maurois

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In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
Literature
Andre Maurois

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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Infidelity
Andre Maurois

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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Confidence
Andre Maurois

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Style [Is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
Style
Andre Maurois

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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Argument
Andre Maurois

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun