At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..
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A reference to the anti-marijuana laws of the 1930sLouis Armstrong
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From out the throng and stress of lies,
From out the painful noise of sighs,
One voice of comfort seems to rise:
"It is the meaner part that dies."William Morris
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
Karl Kraus
Reasoning at every step he treads,
Man yet mistakes his way,
While meaner things, whom instinct leads,
Are rarely known to stray.William Cowper
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf
Than that I may not disappoint myself,
That in my action I may soar as high
As I can now discern with this clear eye.Henry David Thoreau
You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes
More by your number than your light;
You common people of the skies,
What are you when the sun shall rise?Henry Wotton
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