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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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