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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Adultery Committed Country Course Extinct Know People Person Tasmanian
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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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