W. Somerset Maugham

A playwright, novelist and short story writer.

1. If forty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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2. 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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3. Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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4. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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5. There are three rules for writing a novel.
   Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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7. I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell: their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

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8. Sometimes, people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that, in due course, they actually become the person they seem.

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