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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to W. Somerset Maugham?
→ Only one kind of love lasts - unrequited.
→ If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.
→ My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
→ A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
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Pick the quote attributed to W. Somerset Maugham.
→ There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
→ There are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types and those who don’t.
→ The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
→ I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Select the quotation attributed to W. Somerset Maugham.
→ Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
→ We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
→ A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
→ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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One of these may be attributed to W. Somerset Maugham. Which one?
→ He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
→ I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
→ Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
→ One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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Which one of these belongs to W. Somerset Maugham?
→ The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
→ Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
→ Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
→ It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to W. Somerset Maugham?
→ A yawn is a silent shout.
→ Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
→ But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
→ We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to W. Somerset Maugham.
→ The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
→ Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
→ It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
→ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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One of the following quotations belongs to W. Somerset Maugham. Which one?
→ For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
→ The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
→ I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
→ He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to W. Somerset Maugham?
→ We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
→ One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
→ Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
→ People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to W. Somerset Maugham.
→ When gossip gets old, it becomes a myth.
→ Public opinion is a second conscience.
→ The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
→ You can cover a great deal of country in books.
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Looks like W. Somerset Maugham is the author of one of these.
→ A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
→ Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
→ A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
→ Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
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