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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. - H.L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. – H.L. Mencken

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Committees
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – H.L. Mencken

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Marriage
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Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. – H.L. Mencken

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Taxes
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Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them. РGuy Fregault, La guerre de la conqu̻te

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History

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. – Woodrow Wilson

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History

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. – Herbert Hoover

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History

With copious evidence ranging from Platos haughtiness to Beethovens tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. – Stephen Jay Gould

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History

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you cant help them, at least dont hurt them. – Dalai Lama

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. – Aristotle

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