Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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