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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating."

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Vikram Seth Poet, Novelist
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"I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you."

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"Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him."

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