It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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