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H. L. Mencken

"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."

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"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."

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"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."

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H. L. Mencken
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

Reflection

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H. L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

Politics

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H. L. Mencken
"Life is a dead-end street."

Life

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H. L. Mencken
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

Democracy

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H. L. Mencken
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

Democracy

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H. L. Mencken
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."

Religion

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H. L. Mencken
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."

Religion

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H. L. Mencken
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

Unity

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H. L. Mencken
"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil."

Success

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H. L. Mencken
"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor."

Humor

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