If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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