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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.

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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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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.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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