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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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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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
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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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
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
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Artist Beauty Chaos Fashion Given Know Made Something Soul Strange Torment World
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Beautiful Essence Unity Variety
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
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
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Domination Love Nothing Possess Rage Satisfied She Soul Woman
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth

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