I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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 secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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