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More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

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  2. After all, a man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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  3. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

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