All H. L. Mencken Quotes
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Politics
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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Marriage
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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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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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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