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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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