Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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