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Henry Louis Mencken
United States
12 Sep 1880 // 29 Jan 1956
Journalist / Satirist /Social critic
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On Tediousness:
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal
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On Existence:
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line
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On Respect:
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious
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On Religion:
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them
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On Wise:
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight
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On Marriage:
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
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On Belief:
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man
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On Freedom:
Most people want security in this world, not liberty
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On Moral:
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong
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On Marriage:
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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