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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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