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Ten Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
- Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be…
- The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
- One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
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- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
- I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. — David Bailey
- Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am… — Tom Baker
- In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. — George Bancroft
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams
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