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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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
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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