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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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