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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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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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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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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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