We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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