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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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