If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMImagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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