I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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