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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
Explore more quotes by H. L. Mencken
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
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