"You can't do anything about the length..." - Quote by H L Mencken
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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“Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.”
“The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.”
“Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.”
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“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”
“I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.”
“If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.”