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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes: Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
         

Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.


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Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
         



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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.



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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.



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 that it values more, it will lose that too.

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 that it values more, it will lose that too.



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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.



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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.



It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.



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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.



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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.





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