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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ↗

— Mencius

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses. ↗

— Bret Michaels

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Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later. ↗

— Bret Michaels

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Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. ↗

— Pras Michel

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