The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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