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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
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"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"Moderation in all things."
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"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
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"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
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"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
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Explore more quotes by H. L. Mencken
"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
Reflection
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
Perception
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Government
"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
Existence
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
Literature
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
Marriage
"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."
Life
"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."
War
"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
Wisdom
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
Morality
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