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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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After Come Experience Material Wait You

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