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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
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
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Dullness First Good Husband Reyuiste
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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
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 Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
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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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
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
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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Chance Daughter Feel Girl Hate Look Own Stand Upon
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Before Care Cesare Death Long Love Other Separation Think Tragedy

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