An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWords have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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