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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Dullness First Good Husband Reyuiste
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will
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
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself
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.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing

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