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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
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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Bering Girl Made Make Mistake Want
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
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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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Complete Five Make Money Other Sense Sixth Such
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Boundless Intoxicate Space
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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
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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Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent

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