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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. - H.L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H.L. Mencken

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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. – H.L. Mencken

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. – H.L. Mencken

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag

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I was reading a book… the history of glue – I couldnt put it down. – Tim Vine

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World history is a court of judgment. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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