I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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