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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
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
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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Future Life Live Over Present Worry Worth
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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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
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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Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
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 …
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Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Know Novel Rule Three Unfortunately Write
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
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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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition

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