It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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 bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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