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H L Mencken
: Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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Tallulah Bankhead :
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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
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Robert Anton Wilson :
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The average is that which no person quite ever is.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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Theodore Roosevelt :
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.
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Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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