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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
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
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
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Accept Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
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
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
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World

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