Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
From H. L. Mencken
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
Every man is his own hell.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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