Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFrom the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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