It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham in Our Betters (1923)
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It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

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Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

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We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.

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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

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