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Man Has Always Sacrificed Truth To His Vanity, Comfort And Advantage.
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He
lives by makebelieve.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
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Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
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I learned that...love was the only dirty trick that nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell .
.. their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ....
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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The easiest thing in the world is to be a holy man on a mountain!
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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