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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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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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
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
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
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
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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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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After Come Experience Material Wait You
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent

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