All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Henry Louis Mencken
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
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.. The basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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When I hear artists and authors making fun of business men I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
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Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is
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