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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 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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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
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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest

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