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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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