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"Art," he continued, with a wave of the hand, "is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life."	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.	W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage
"Life isn't long enough for love and art."	W. Somerset Maugham	The Moon and Sixpence
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.	W. Somerset Maugham	The Moon and Sixpence
. . . impropriety is the soul of wit . . .	W. Somerset Maugham	The Moon and Sixpence

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