Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. -H. L. Mencken

 

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.


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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

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