She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTradition is a guide and not a jailer.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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