Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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