The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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