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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.

W. Somerset Maugham

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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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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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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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