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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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