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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Action Age Country Different Evening Freedom Good Old Pleasant Thing Tranquility Two Youth
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Guarantee Learn Most Something Thing Truth Valuable
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
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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Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell

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