I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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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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