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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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