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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 it values more, it will lose that, too....
• The best way to lose freedom is not to do anything.
• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• The great truths are too important to be new. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• These are DARK TIMES for all mankind's HIGHEST VALUES!
  "These are DARK TIMES for FREEDOM and PROSPERITY!...
• These are DARK TIMES for all mankind's HIGHEST VALUES!
  "These are DARK TIMES for FREEDOM and PROSPERITY!...
• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.
  He lives by makebelieve. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938...