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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
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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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
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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Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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All Art Beautiful Beauty Perfect Richest Work
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Dullness First Good Husband Reyuiste
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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