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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

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
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
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
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Everything Life Love Plesant Realize Reasonable Whole You
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
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
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
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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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Before Care Cesare Death Long Love Other Separation Think Tragedy

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