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" It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Look
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Good
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" It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. "
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" Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. "
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" Only a mediocre person is always at his best. "
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" At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. "
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" The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. "
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" We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "
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" It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. "
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" The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. "
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" No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. "
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" People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. "
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" It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. "
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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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" It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. "
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" You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. "
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" The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. "
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" It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. "
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" Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. "
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" When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. "
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" Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. "
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" The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. "
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" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "
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" The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. "
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People
Success
" If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? "
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" My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. "
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" We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. "
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" In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. "
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" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "
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" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "
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" Have common sense and stick to the point. "
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