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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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