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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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