Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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