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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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