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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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.
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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