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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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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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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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We 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.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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