The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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