You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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From 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.
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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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