Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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