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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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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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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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