It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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 essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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