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• I learned that...love was the only dirty trick that nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
  -- William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) "The Summing Up" (1938)...
• Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
• The easiest thing in the world is to be a holy man on a mountain!
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
• [The French Riviera is] a sunny place for shady people. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• The great truths are too important to be new. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. -- Somerset Maugham