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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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