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Aphorisms and Epigrams
Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. W. Somerset Maugham
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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. Frank Borman
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"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness." – Woody Allen
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. Alexander Pope
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. Voltaire
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