Tag: H. L. Mencken
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H. L. Mencken
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken
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Life is a dead-end street.
H. L. Mencken
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
H. L. Mencken
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken