You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.


W. Somerset Maugham

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To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
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It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get i...
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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. H...
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Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a ba...
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You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri...
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There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large wi...
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actuall...
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
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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 wo...
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing...
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without ...
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always...
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and wo...
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er...
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it...
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're ...
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o...
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the ...
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty...
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er...
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
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Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man w...
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As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to th...
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefo...
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesth...
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...
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You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for noth...
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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by butteri...
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