When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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