When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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