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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Failure
Herman Melville

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The best thing you can do is get good at being you.
Self-improvement
Dennis the Menace

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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Diligence
Menander of Athens

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Change
Menander of Athens

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
Goals
Menander of Athens

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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
Experience
Menander of Athens

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Life and Living
Menander of Athens

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Heart
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Sincerity
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
Truth
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Fame
H. L. Mencken

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Cynics and Cynicism
H. L. Mencken

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A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
Gentlemen
H. L. Mencken

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Politicians and Politics
H. L. Mencken

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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
Nuns
H. L. Mencken

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
H. L. Mencken

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Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
Alimony
H. L. Mencken

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Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Churches
H. L. Mencken

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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
Bachelor
H. L. Mencken

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
Decency
H. L. Mencken

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith
H. L. Mencken

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Problems
H. L. Mencken

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Voting
H. L. Mencken

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Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
History and Historians
H. L. Mencken

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
Husbands
H. L. Mencken

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun