If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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 waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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