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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Future Life Live Over Present Worry Worth
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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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past

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