Tag: H. L. Mencken
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. Mencken
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. Mencken
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
H. L. Mencken
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
H. L. Mencken