You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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