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" We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Rather
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" I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. "
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" You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. "
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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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" I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. "
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" Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. "
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" I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. "
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" It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. "
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" We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. "
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" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "
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" Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. "
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" Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. "
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" It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. "
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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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" In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. "
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" There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. "
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Freedom
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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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Artist
" Tolerance is another word for indifference. "
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" The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. "
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" Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. "
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" Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. "
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" It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. "
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" Only a mediocre person is always at his best. "
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" The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. "
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Returned
Never
" The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. "
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" Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. "
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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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