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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
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 important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
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
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
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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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word

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