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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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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 not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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 can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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