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Men often believe -- or pretend -- that the "Law" is something sacred, or
at least a science -- an unfounded assumption very convenient to governments.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our
pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs
and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious,
inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us
sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness
and acts that are contrary to habit...
-- Hippocrates "The Sacred Disease"
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Men say of women what pleases them; women do with men what pleases them.
-- DeSegur
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Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples.
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Men still remember the first kiss after women have forgotten the last.
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Men take only their needs into consideration -- never their abilities.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings,
and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
-- Voltaire
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Men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures
from Alpha Centauri were REAL small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Spirits were brave, men boldly split infinitives that no man had split
before. Thus was the Empire forged.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Men who cherish for women the highest
respect are seldom popular with them.
-- Joseph Addison
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Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American:
All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
Mencken and Nathan's Ninth Law of The Average American:
The quality of a champagne is judged by the
amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.
Mencken and Nathan's Fifteenth Law of The Average American:
The worst actress in the company is always the manager's wife.
Mencken and Nathan's Sixteenth Law of The Average American:
Milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that
is possessed only by yokels, and no person born in a large city
can ever hope to acquire it.
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