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

W. Somerset Maugham
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2011). A Writer's Notebook, p.26, Random House
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