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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Brief Contemptuously Heard Money People Speak Wonder Wonderful
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
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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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
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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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
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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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself

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