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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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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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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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