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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 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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
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