You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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