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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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 a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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