"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Children Quotes #Failure Quotes #Taken Quotes

“A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with oneâ€™s personal history and that ofÂ oneâ€™s friends, interwoven with oneâ€™s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”
“The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.”
“To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.”
“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”
“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
“Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.”
“You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.”
“I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.”

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