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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.
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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Ability Quote Serviceable Substitute Visit
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Become First Foolish Million One People Thing Wise
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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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Achieve Constitution Dirty Love Paly Species Trick
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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Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
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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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Belongs Feel Man Mysteriously Place Sometimes

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