A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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