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Posted on December 16, 2017December 16, 2017

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that somebody may be looking.”—H. L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

Posted on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017

“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?”—Thornton Wilder, American playwright & novelist, 1897-1975

Posted on July 21, 2017July 21, 2017

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017

“We shouldn’t maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880

Posted on June 4, 2017

“Actors are the only honest hypocrites.”—William Hazlitt, English drama critic, 1778-1830

Posted on May 24, 2017May 24, 2017

“The gods use us mortals as footballs.”—Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on May 9, 2017May 9, 2017

“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman author, 1st century BC

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