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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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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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