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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Domination Love Nothing Possess Rage Satisfied She Soul Woman
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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All Art Beautiful Beauty Perfect Richest Work
I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Act Convention Country Democratic Ground Like Nation Personality Prefer Worst
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.
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Anything Comfort Freedom Irony Lose Money More Nation Value Virtue
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well

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