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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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