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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Arrange Dictionary Found Matter Right Sentence Story Use Word
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
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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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
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
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
Words 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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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
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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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such

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