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- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- 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 one.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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