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" Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. "
H. L. Mencken
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" Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. "
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" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. "
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" One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. "
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" A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. "
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" An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. "
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" I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. "
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" God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. "
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" A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. "
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" Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. "
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" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. "
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" Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. "
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" A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. "
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" Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. "
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" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "
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" When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. "
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" There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. "
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" Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. "
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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. "
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" I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. "
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" Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. "
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