The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTo bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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