The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMEach 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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