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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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