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One Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
- Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last…
- Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
- The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is…
- Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are…
- Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently -…
- No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain…
- When women kiss, it always reminds one of prizefighters shaking hands
- The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius
- A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he doesn't know
- Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
- Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.
- Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also…
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