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" No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. "
H. L. Mencken
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" Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. "
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" It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. "
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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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" Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. "
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