Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No. " He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. - W. Somerset Maugham

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There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No. " He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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