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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
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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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
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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Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
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
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Character Crete Incident Matter Pasion Sincerity Story Tell Write
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Domination Love Nothing Possess Rage Satisfied She Soul Woman
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
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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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
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
You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness

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