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Opinion Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to…
- Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.
- All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
- Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
- Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it…
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- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
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