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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. ↗

— Herman Melville

#dying #evermore #fellows #indulged #little

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#choose #enduring #ever #flea #great

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

The man who runs may fight again. ↗

— Menander

#fight #man #may #runs #who

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#been #between #caught #difference #even

I'm not high maintenance. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#high maintenance #i #maintenance

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#individuals #made #original #probably #society

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#inner #inner voice #looking #might #someone

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ↗