Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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