Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job.W. Somerset Maugham
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
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