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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

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