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I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. ↗

— Mencius

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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