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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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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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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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