We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTo acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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 can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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