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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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