Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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