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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." -
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Top 5 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"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 Quotations
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
"He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
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