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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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