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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented

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