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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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