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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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