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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Domination Love Nothing Possess Rage Satisfied She Soul Woman
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
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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