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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Everything Life Love Plesant Realize Reasonable Whole You
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Dullness First Good Husband Reyuiste
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Adultery Committed Country Course Extinct Know People Person Tasmanian
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
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
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
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Above Average Compliment Fool Great Most People Really Someone
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
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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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Country Life Place
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
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young

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