Great Throughts Treasury

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

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Man | Pride |

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William Shakespeare

And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, he called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, to bring a slovenly unhandsome corse betwixt the wind and his nobility.

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Amends | Good | Luck | Will | Luck |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Popularity: The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

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Good | Need |

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