Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMost people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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