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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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