Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Interpretation
Happiness is experienced at the beginnings and endings of romantic relationships.
This quote by H. L. Mencken suggests that an individual's greatest moments of happiness often occur during two significant events in their romantic life: the joy of discovering love for the first time, and the relief or freedom that sometimes follows the end of a romantic relationship. It highlights the emotional peaks and troughs that characterize love and relationships, illuminating the complex nature of human feelings.
In practice
This quote would be great to share during a speech about the ups and downs of human relationships.
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It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
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There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.
We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be β that proves I love him better than myself.
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