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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime and Criminals
H. L. Mencken

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Age and Aging
H. L. Mencken

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Music
H. L. Mencken

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Lies and Lying
H. L. Mencken

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Theology
H. L. Mencken

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
Freedom
H. L. Mencken

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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Privilege
H. L. Mencken

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Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Ignorance
Harry Mendelson

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Beauty
Felix Mendelssohn

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love
Karl A. Menninger

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Hate can only flourish where love is absent.
Hatred
William C. Menninger

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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty
George B. Mere

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Women
George Meredith

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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
Jealousy
George Meredith

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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Biography
George Meredith

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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Passion
George Meredith

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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Duty
George Meredith

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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
Common Sense
George Meredith

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
Love
George Meredith

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Happiness
Owen Meredith

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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Certainty
Owen Meredith

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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Crime and Criminals
Owen Meredith

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Character
Merikare

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