Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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