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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have 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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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