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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Action Age Country Different Evening Freedom Good Old Pleasant Thing Tranquility Two Youth
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
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
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
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
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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past

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