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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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