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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
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
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
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
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
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young

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