As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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 prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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