Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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