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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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