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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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.
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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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 recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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