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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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

— H. L. Mencken

#average #believe #descended #even #harder

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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