Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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