Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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