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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

W. Somerset Maugham

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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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