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“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken

“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

“The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.”
― H.L. Mencken

“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending