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H L Mencken
Bachelors know more...
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
Love is the...
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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-- H L Mencken,...
Love is an...
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with...
Progress is the...
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and...
I never agree...
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
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-- H L...
Men have a...
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die...
The curse of...
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the...
On one issue...
On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
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Remorse is regret...
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
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-- H L Mencken,...
In war the...
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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-- H L...
A metaphysician is...
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by...
PURITANISM: The...
PURITANISM: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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To denounce moralizing...
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
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Temptation is an...
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.
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-- H L...
The capacity of...
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other...
To sum up:...
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a...
Whenever a husband...
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's...
An idealist is...
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more...
The penalty for...
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never...
The difference between...
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has...