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 MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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