You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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