___ is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to ___ it.
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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, simple, and ___.
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No matter how happily a woman may be ___, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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The capacity of human beings to ___ one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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You never push a noun against a verb without trying to ___ something.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a ___.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like ___, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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→ I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
→ An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
→ To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
→ Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
→ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
→ The home should be the treasure chest of living.
→ Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.
Pick the one quotation belonging to H. L. Mencken.
→ The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
→ If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
→ Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Can you identify which quote belongs to H. L. Mencken?
→ A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
→ The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
→ Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
→ Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.
→ Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
→ What we play is life.
→ Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
→ Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
Identify the quotation belonging to H. L. Mencken?
→ The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
→ To be born to create to love to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
→ If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
→ Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
One of the following quotes belongs to H. L. Mencken. Pick one.
→ The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
→ The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
→ The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
→ Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.