It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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