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William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

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Just an inept person always performs at their maximum potential.

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Those who are not sure of their memory should refrain from lying.

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The public good requires betraying, lying, and massacring.

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Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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The heads of the greatest men shrink when they come together, and where there are more sane people is also where there is less sanity.

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Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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The Christian religion, which seems to have no other purpose than the happiness of the afterlife, also makes us happy in this life.

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Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore

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That's what I say, father. Whose wife?

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Paul Morand

Paul Morand

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Complete works crush the reader; they kill the authors and ruin the publishers.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Not a sublime intelligence, not a great imagination, nor both things together form genius; love, that is the soul of genius.

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Enrique Múgica Herzog

Enrique Múgica Herzog

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Longing is the path to becoming a pillar of salt.

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Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch

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A beginning never disappears, not even with an ending.

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Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch

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Translating to American English, the phrase would be: 'Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like when you stroke someone's hair.'

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Antonio Muñoz Molina

Antonio Muñoz Molina

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Traducción al inglés americano: 'Reading is the only sovereign act we have left.'

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