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 …
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhat does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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