"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."

-- H. L. Mencken

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“I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.”
“Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.”
“Burn, baby, burn,â€ she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice. I cleared my throat. â€œAs much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction youâ€™re taking in watching the mansion blaze to the ground, Iâ€™d really like to get out of here before the whole house collapses on top of us.”
“The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.”
“The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.”
“These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.”
“May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.”

Source : "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.
“There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.”

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