You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.

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.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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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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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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Anything Delight Last More Nothing
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Down Lot One You
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.

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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Boundless Intoxicate
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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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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Give Organ Thoroughly
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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