Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken

Quotes November 23, 2008

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Quotations by H. L. Mencken

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. Proverb

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Death and DyingQuotations by Plato

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.New YearQuotations by Sir Walter Scott

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.Friends and FriendshipQuotations by Terence

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.SculpturesQuotations by Pablo Picasso

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?FacesQuotations by Abraham Lincoln

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.Death and DyingQuotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.LaughterQuotations by Oliver Goldsmith

“A faith that hasn’t been tested can’t be trusted.” – Adrian Rogers