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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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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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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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