American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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