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"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."
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H. L. Mencken
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Agreement
"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Category:
Bachelor
"There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Category:
Books and Reading
"Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas."
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Category:
Choice
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
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H. L. Mencken
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Cynics and Cynicism
"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Category:
Democracy
"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters."
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Category:
God
"The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible."
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H. L. Mencken
Category:
Incredulity
"One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent."
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Category:
Laughter
"The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him."
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Category:
Leisure
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