To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
– W Somerset Maugham
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- My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W Somerset Maugham
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- The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure. – W Somerset Maugham
- When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? – W Somerset Maugham
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