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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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