Quote by Somerset Maugham
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for b

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. – Somerset Maugham

Other quotes by Somerset Maugham

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

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

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Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats

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We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else’s. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – E. W. Howe

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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. – Rosa Luxemburg

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