The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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