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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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