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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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.
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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 is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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