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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Adultery Committed Country Course Extinct Know People Person Tasmanian
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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Anything Comfort Freedom Irony Lose Money More Nation Value Virtue
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing

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