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W. Somerset Maugham

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Kebahagiaan
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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Kehidupan
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Pendidikan
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Kreativitas
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Cinta
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Cinta
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Sukses
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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Sukses
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Kreativitas
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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Alam
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
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Kreativitas
The crown of literature is poetry.
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Motivasi
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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Nasihat
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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Nasihat
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Kehidupan
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Sukses
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Nasihat
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Kehidupan
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
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