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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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