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W. Somerset Maugham

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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Comfortable Conduct Frame Humorous Imagine Mind More Resignation
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Angry Dangerous Easily Illusion Public Scene
She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Glass Handsome Love Men She Thing Three Wine
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Before Care Cesare Death Long Love Other Separation Think Tragedy
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
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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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
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
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Complete Five Make Money Other Sense Sixth Such
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living

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