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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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