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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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