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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Everything Life Love Plesant Realize Reasonable Whole You
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Complete Five Make Money Other Sense Sixth Such
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
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
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
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
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant

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