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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Know Novel Rule Three Unfortunately Write
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Bering Girl Made Make Mistake Want
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
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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Get Her Life Love Much Nery One Rest Spend Wish Woman
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Action Age Country Different Evening Freedom Good Old Pleasant Thing Tranquility Two Youth
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
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
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
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
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

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