One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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