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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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