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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
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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Before Care Cesare Death Long Love Other Separation Think Tragedy
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
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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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
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

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