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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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