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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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