Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTradition is a guide and not a jailer.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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