When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOnly a mediocre person is always at his best.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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