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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

W. Somerset Maugham

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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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