To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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