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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take 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
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
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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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such
She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Glass Handsome Love Men She Thing Three Wine
I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
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
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
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two

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