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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
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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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Brief Contemptuously Heard Money People Speak Wonder Wonderful
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing

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