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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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