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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
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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Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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