After all, " Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off...
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L.m. Montgomery
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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Jane Austen
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
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Mohsin Hamid
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
More Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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.
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
