You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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