A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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