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• [The French Riviera is] a sunny place for shady people. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. -- Somerset Maugham
• Impropriety is the soul of wit. -- Somerset Maugham
• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them.
  Humor teaches them tolerance. -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• 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....
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself
  and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word....
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- 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)...