All H. L. Mencken Quotes
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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Love
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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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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
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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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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Love
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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