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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Dullness First Good Husband Reyuiste
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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After Come Experience Material Wait You
You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You

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