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Begin Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
- No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
- I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be…
- Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
- War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
- Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. --H. L. Mencken
- Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throat.
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