I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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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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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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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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