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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 can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
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
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Above Average Compliment Fool Great Most People Really Someone
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
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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Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think

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