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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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