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| "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C major (1916) "Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking" -- H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C major (1916) "When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands." -- H. L. Mencken, Chrestomathy (1949) "Love is a delusion that one woman differs from another." -- H. L. Mencken, Chrestomathy (1949) "Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." -- H. L. Mencken, Chrestomathy (1949) "Opera in English is, in the main, jut about as sensible as baseball in Italian." -- H. L. Mencken, quoted in The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social History(Frank Muir, 1976) "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 and chemistry." -- H. L. Mencken, "Minority Report", collected in Notebooks (1956) |
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