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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

W. Somerset Maugham

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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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