"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
-W. Somerset Maugham
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.“
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"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"
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