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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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.
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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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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
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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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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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Boundless Intoxicate Space

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