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• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.
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• 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....
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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• It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
  -- William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
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