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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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