Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOf all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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