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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
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
Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Boundless Intoxicate Space
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
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Act Convention Country Democratic Ground Like Nation Personality Prefer Worst
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

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