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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
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 only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
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
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
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
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Belief Element Essential Eternity Love Own
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
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well

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