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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young

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