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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
Marriage
H. L. Mencken

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
Evolution
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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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Humankind
H. L. Mencken

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Men and Women
H. L. Mencken

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Power
H. L. Mencken

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Women
George Meredith

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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Certainty
Owen Meredith

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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Lies and Lying
Merlin

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Arts and Artists
Michelangelo

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Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
Deeds and Good Deeds
Midrash

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Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
Teams and Teamwork
Midrash

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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
Order
George Mikes

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
Custom
John Stuart Mill

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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Understanding
John Stuart Mill

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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Books - Classics
Henry Miller

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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Creation
Henry Miller

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.
Human Nature
Henry Miller

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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Heroes and Heroism
Henry Miller

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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
Excuses
A. A. Milne

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Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Youth
John Milton

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For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
Uncategorised
John Milton

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