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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.: Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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 (1880 - 1956)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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)
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)
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune

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