Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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