- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- It is a very funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
- When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
- D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
- It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
- Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
~W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, Novelist and Playwright
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