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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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