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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
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
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
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.
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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
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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Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want

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