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H.L. Mencken

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Quotes by H.L. Mencken

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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
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24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.
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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots but as a party of bandits.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act; even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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For every problem, there is a solution, which is simple, clean, and wrong.
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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Take them (women) away, and his existence is a s flat and secure as that of a moo-cow.
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