It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
From W. Somerset Maugham
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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