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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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 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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