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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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