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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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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Beautiful Essence Unity Variety
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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