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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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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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