"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.“
-H. L. Mencken
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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