It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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