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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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