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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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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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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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