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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Glass Handsome Love Men She Thing Three Wine
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
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
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

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