The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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