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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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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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