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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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