Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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A 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.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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