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Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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