This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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You must - do you hear me, young man? - You must work more than you are doing!
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You must not think that feeling is everything? Art is nothing without form.
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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.
When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |
The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.
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When the danger is past God is cheated.
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Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.