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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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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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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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