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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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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
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Brief Contemptuously Heard Money People Speak Wonder Wonderful
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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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
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
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Comfortable Conduct Frame Humorous Imagine Mind More Resignation
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
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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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
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
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Before Care Cesare Death Long Love Other Separation Think Tragedy
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
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
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
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Boundless Intoxicate Space
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World

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