Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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