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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
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
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
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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Act Convention Country Democratic Ground Like Nation Personality Prefer Worst
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Achieve Constitution Dirty Love Paly Species Trick
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
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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Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
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
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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Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
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

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