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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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