For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with … - W. Somerset Maugham

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Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

W. Somerset Maugham

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

Creatures, Man, Men, Occupy Yourself, Real, Significant

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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.

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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Book, Construct, Life, Miseries, Reading, Refuge

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