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

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Heart
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 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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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
Decency
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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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
Marriage
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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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Certainty
H. L. Mencken

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Humankind
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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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
H. L. Mencken

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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Temptation
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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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Women
George 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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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Lies and Lying
Merlin

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Arts and Artists
Michelangelo

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Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
Deeds and Good Deeds
Midrash

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Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
Teams and Teamwork
Midrash

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