"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
-W. Somerset Maugham
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.“
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"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."
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