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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant
We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
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
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only

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