American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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