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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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