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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
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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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy

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