There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThrow 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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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