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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
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
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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
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 love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
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
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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