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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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