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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #free #i #i believe #i believe that

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#genuinely #happy #man #married #married man

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#associations #end #even #exactly #feel

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#change #enjoys #hairstyles #i #i am

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#force #irresistible #movable #temptation #work

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#equipment #fly #just #lack #moon

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #back #come #commandments #fact

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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