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" It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. "
W. Somerset Maugham
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" You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. "
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" When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. "
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" Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. "
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" What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. "
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