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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

W. Somerset Maugham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Guarantee Learn Most Something Thing Truth Valuable

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