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Than Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a…
- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
- Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
- Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
- Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
- One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to…
- For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel…
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