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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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