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" The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. "
W. Somerset Maugham
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" The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. "
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" Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. "
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" In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. "
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" Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. "
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" Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. "
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" You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. "
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Mistake
Habit
Marriage
" 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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Best
You
Anything
" Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. "
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Puppets
String
Which
" When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. "
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Personality
Friendship
Character
" The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. "
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Misfortune
World
Willing
" When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. "
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Me
Book
Eyes
" 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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Living
Death
Dead
" It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. "
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Those
Happy
Who
" Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. "
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Effect
Excess
Habit
" 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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Bad
Give
Good
" Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. "
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Powerful
Belief
Exercise
" 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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See
Land
Day
" Tolerance is another word for indifference. "
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Indifference
Tolerance
Another
" It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. "
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Hard
Very
Writer
" The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. "
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Comfortable
Thought
Anger
" Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. "
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Like
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Sense
" Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. "
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Only
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Love
" Impropriety is the soul of wit. "
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Soul
Wit
Humor
" There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. "
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Action
Freedom
Good
" A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. "
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He
Because
Home
" The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. "
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Lasts
Returned
Never