If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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