He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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