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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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