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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
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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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
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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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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