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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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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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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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