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Valuable Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
- There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
- There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
- Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every…
- It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
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