Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
From W. Somerset Maugham
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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