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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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