Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they 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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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