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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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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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