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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes: It is clear that men accept an immediate…

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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.

("Of Human Bondage")

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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.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the religious temperament.
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