An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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