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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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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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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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