Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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