"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
-H. L. Mencken
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"There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.“
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"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
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"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands."
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"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them."
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier."
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
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