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H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken

“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”

- H. L. Mencken

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“A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.”

- H. L. Mencken

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“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”

- H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

- H. L. Mencken

Source/Notes: Prejudices, Fourth Series (1924)
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H. L. Mencken

“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”

- H. L. Mencken

Source/Notes: A little book in C major, Рипол Классик - ISBN: 9781176795112
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H. L. Mencken

“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.”

- H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken

“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”

- H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken

“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”

- H. L. Mencken

Source/Notes: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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H. L. Mencken

“A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.”

- H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken

“A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.”

- H. L. Mencken

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“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.”

- H. L. Mencken

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“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”

- H. L. Mencken

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“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”

- H. L. Mencken

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“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”

- H. L. Mencken

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