An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt 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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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