The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere 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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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