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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Insight Judge Mature Seldom Suspect Ummercifully Very Yet Young
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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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
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
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way
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
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
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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Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
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
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Know Novel Rule Three Unfortunately Write
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Adultery Committed Country Course Extinct Know People Person Tasmanian

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