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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

W. Somerset Maugham

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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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.
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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 know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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