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W Somerset Maugham
: Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
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Adlai E Stevenson :
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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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Don Marquis :
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
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Thomas Carlyle :
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France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
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Oscar Levant :
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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Oscar Wilde :
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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Karl Kraus :
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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Friedrich Nietzsche :
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Francis H Bradley :
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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