Tag: W. Somerset Maugham

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.

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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

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Tolerance is another word for indifference.

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