One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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