I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without 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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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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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