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

W. Somerset Maugham

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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have 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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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