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H. L. Mencken

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

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Amber Hurdle

"When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which "was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"

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Amber Hurdle

"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."

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Amber Hurdle

"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"

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Amber Hurdle

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

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Amber Hurdle

"If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?"

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Amber Hurdle

"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."

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Amber Hurdle

"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."

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Amber Hurdle

"Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone... We've nourished nothing of our own."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."

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Amber Hurdle

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

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H. L. Mencken
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

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H. L. Mencken
"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."

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H. L. Mencken
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."

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H. L. Mencken
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

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H. L. Mencken
"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

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H. L. Mencken
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."

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H. L. Mencken
"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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H. L. Mencken
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

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H. L. Mencken
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

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