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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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
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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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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
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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