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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
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
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
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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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
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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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
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

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