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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
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
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
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
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
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return

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