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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Act Convention Country Democratic Ground Like Nation Personality Prefer Worst
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
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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Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
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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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Insight Judge Mature Seldom Suspect Ummercifully Very Yet Young
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such

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