I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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