American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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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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Time stays, we go.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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