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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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