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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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