Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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