A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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