As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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