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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Angry Dangerous Easily Illusion Public Scene
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
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
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Arrange Dictionary Found Matter Right Sentence Story Use Word
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
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
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
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
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
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
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
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
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
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
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
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
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

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