W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.