You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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