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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Government
Lord Melbourne

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
Law and Lawyers
David Mellor

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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Giving
Bernard Meltzer

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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Literature
Herman Melville

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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
Writers and Writing
Herman Melville

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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Diligence
Menander of Athens

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Problems
H. L. Mencken

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Voting
H. L. Mencken

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
Husbands
H. L. Mencken

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken

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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Certainty
H. L. Mencken

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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Agreement
H. L. Mencken

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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Temptation
H. L. Mencken

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime and Criminals
H. L. Mencken

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken

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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
Kisses and Kissing
H. L. Mencken

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love
Karl A. Menninger

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Love
Karl A. Menninger

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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty
George B. Mere

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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Meredith

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
Love
George Meredith

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Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Talent
Owen Meredith

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You are the land. The land is you.
Land
Merlin

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Get the best people and train them well.
Business
Charles Merrill

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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Writers and Writing
Paul J. Meyer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun