He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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