Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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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 want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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