It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTolerance is only another name for indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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