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Army Scout Inspirational Quotes (476)

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And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty the only thing that counts is the love of duty when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
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They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection but perhaps she does not always remember him.
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It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
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Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
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It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
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He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
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I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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