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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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