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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Beautiful Essence Unity Variety
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
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Future Life Live Over Present Worry Worth
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Guarantee Learn Most Something Thing Truth Valuable
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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