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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Belongs Feel Man Mysteriously Place Sometimes
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Achieve Constitution Dirty Love Paly Species Trick
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Action Both Bother Choose Country Else Everybody Freedom Good May Nobody Thing
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
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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