If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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