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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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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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