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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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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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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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