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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance

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