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The most useful thing about a principle… (W. Somerset Maugham Quote)

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
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