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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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