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But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Originality
Herman Melville

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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Literature
Herman Melville

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

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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Reputation
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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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 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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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Adultery
H. L. Mencken

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Quotations
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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Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
History and Historians
H. L. Mencken

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Heroes and Heroism
H. L. Mencken

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
Justice
H. L. Mencken

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
Belief
H. L. Mencken

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

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Men and Women
H. L. Mencken

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Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
Remorse
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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Power
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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun