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- It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
- The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
- Alan Patrick Herbert
- The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
- Paul Johnson
- Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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