We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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