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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 (1880 - 1956)
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Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

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