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Little Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
- Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one…
- A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can…
- The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more…
- Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they…
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