You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhat makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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 you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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