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 A bachelor’s life is a splendid breakfast, a tolerably flat
dinner and a most miserable supper.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. | 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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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. | H. L. Mencken |
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. | H. L. Mencken |
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. | H. L. Mencken |
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. | H. L. Mencken |
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All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. | H. L. Mencken |
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. | H. L. Mencken |
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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. | H. L. Mencken |
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. | H. L. Mencken |
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. | H. L. Mencken |
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. | H. L. Mencken |
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible. | H. L. Mencken |
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. | H. L. Mencken |
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