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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
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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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple

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