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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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 don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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