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 gi
Mencken, H.L.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdo
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I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
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No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
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And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; there in they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber stamps.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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