When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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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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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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