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

W. Somerset Maugham

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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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
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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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