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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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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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