A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence
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