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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
New York: A third-rate Babylon.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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