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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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