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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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