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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Anyone Bear Best Character Courage Failure Give Proof
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
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life 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
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
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
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Country Life Place
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Become First Foolish Million One People Thing Wise
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
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing
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

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