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Why don't more bars have windows? Maybe it's a stain from the Puritans. Those guys were insufferable. They latched onto a few ideas like a burning marshmallow on a kid's forearm, substituted those ideas for complete reality, and self-righteously tried to force them down

"One should be sufficiently intelligent and interested to know a good deal about any person one comes into close contact with. About her. Or about him. "But to try to know any living being is to try to suck the life out of that being."

"The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost." G.K. Chesterton

For a long while, our culture tended to bleed manliness into femininity. Men were told that they should be sensitive and artsy, that it's acceptable to cry, that they should undertake traditionally female roles. The response? Some went for it. Others rebelled, and set-up the antithesis: a pig

"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." H.L. Mencken

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight; But roaring Bill who killed him Thought it right. Hilaire Belloc

"To be poor in order to be simple, to produce less in order that the product may be more choice and beautiful, and may leave us less burdened with unnecessary duties and useless possessions--that is an idea not articulate in the American mind." George Santayana

"Yes, that's the bore of comfort. We only know when we are uncomfortable." Henry James

"Laugh at a man's language, and you have laughed at the man himself in the most inclusive sense." Herbert Agar