Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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