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" No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. "
W. Somerset Maugham
His
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Regard
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" Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. "
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" In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. "
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" In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. "
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" We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "
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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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" Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. "
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" We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. "
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" Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. "
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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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" The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. "
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" Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. "
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" I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. "
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" The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. "
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" Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. "
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" It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. "
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" Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. "
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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 essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. "
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" Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. "
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" The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. "
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" When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. "
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