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"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Top 5 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
Top 5 quotes from Miscellaneous
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"The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."
"As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever."
"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
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