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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
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
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
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
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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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Act Convention Country Democratic Ground Like Nation Personality Prefer Worst
I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Artist Beauty Chaos Fashion Given Know Made Something Soul Strange Torment World
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
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Apple Country Hollywood Long Make Occasionally One Peach Women
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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After Come Experience Material Wait You
We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
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

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