Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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