The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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 you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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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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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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