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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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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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