There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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