American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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