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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Chance Daughter Feel Girl Hate Look Own Stand Upon
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Belief Element Essential Eternity Love Own
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
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
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
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
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
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

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