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The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
“To Himself Everyone Is Immortal; He May Know That He Is Going To Die, But He Can Never Know That He Is Dead. —Samuel Butler”
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“If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig-tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all this, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“Life is short, but let me live before I die!”
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“whenever you got your way you wished afterwards that you hadn’t.”
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“Childhood is that venomous viper in your bosom pretending to befriend you all along, when in fact, it is the most vicious enemy ever known.”
― Viper in your bosom
― Viper in your bosom
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