When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
W. Somerset Maugham
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