Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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