"Life may not be exactly pleasant, but..." - Quote by H L Mencken
Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.
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“The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.”
“the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
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“He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.”
“The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.”
“The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”