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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.”
mcleodbr William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)

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“It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.”
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“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.”
mcleodbr S. I. Hayakawa quotes
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“Tolerance is another word for indifference.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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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.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)
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“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
Charles de Montesquieu quotes (French Politician and Philosopher, 1689-1755)
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“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
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