H. L. Mencken Quotes About Wisdom
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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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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Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
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