To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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I 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.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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