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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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