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“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
 
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W. Somerset Maugham
 
Name:   W. Somerset Maugham
 
Nationality:   British
 
Date of Birth:   Jan 25, 1874
 
Date of Death:   Dec 16,  1965
 
Profession:   Playwright
 
 
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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.
 
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
 
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
 
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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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