I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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