The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMUnfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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