"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
-W. Somerset Maugham
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"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.“
-W. Somerset Maugham
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