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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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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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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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