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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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