American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. Mencken
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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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.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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