It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA 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.
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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.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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