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“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”

H. L. Mencken · Relationship

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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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.

Experience

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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Humor

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Money