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From Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
- When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we…
- Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an…
- The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
- Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon…
- From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this…
- I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than…
- Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
- Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with…
- From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
- 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…
- I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be…
- Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most…
- The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
- Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist…
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