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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and 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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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