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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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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Accept Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing

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