if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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