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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The worshiper is the father of the gods.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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)

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