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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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