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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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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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