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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
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
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
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
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
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Action Age Country Different Evening Freedom Good Old Pleasant Thing Tranquility Two Youth
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Beautiful Essence Unity Variety
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
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
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly

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