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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Adultery Committed Country Course Extinct Know People Person Tasmanian
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Get Her Life Love Much Nery One Rest Spend Wish Woman
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy

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