I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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