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The crown of literature is poetry.

~W. Somerset Maugham

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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: January 25th, 1874

Died: December 16th, 1965

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