It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - W. Somerset Maugham - Quotesmemo.com

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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W. Somerset Maugham

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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