Great Throughts Treasury

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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Jury: A group of twelve man who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

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Italian Proverbs

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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Italian Proverbs

There is no love without jealousy.

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Italian Proverbs

The right hand is slave to the left.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men and he did not like it much. He was glad he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies and threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would no rather have stayed there in peace -

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject?which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

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