The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTolerance is only another name for indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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