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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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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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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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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