It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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