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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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