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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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