You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do so…

H. L. Mencken
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. ✨ A Little Book in C Major ch. 4 (1916)
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2013) … ▶
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God. ✨ A Book of Burlesques. Book by H. L. Mencken, 1916.

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