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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?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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