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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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