It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the ti…

W. Somerset Maugham
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1930). Cakes and Ale
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2016). Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics), p.343, Diversion Books
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. ✨ The Creative Impulse. Harper's Bazar, August 1926.
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself

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