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• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom
  and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too....
• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom
  and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too....
• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham, "The Circle...
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)