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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.W. Somerset Maugham
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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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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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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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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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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