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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’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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