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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
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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Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
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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Get Her Life Love Much Nery One Rest Spend Wish Woman
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Comfortable Conduct Frame Humorous Imagine Mind More Resignation
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Brief Contemptuously Heard Money People Speak Wonder Wonderful
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Anyone Bear Best Character Courage Failure Give Proof
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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Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
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
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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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
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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