To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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