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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
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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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing

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