It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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