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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’

W. Somerset Maugham

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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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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 is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
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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