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" Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Men
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Weak
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" Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. "
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" Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. "
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" My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. "
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" If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. "
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" At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. "
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" Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. "
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" Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. "
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" The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. "
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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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" 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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" If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? "
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" There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. "
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" Impropriety is the soul of wit. "
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" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "
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" You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. "
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" The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. "
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" It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. "
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" The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. "
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" It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. "
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" The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. "
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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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" When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. "
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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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