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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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