"Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright...." - Quote by H L Mencken
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
“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.”
“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”
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“I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.”
“Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.”
“Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.”
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“They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.”
“The Governor was strong uponThe Regulation Act:The Doctor said that Death was butA scientific fact:And twice a day the Chaplain called,And left a little tract.”
“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”