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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Author : H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Author : H. L. Mencken

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Author : H. L. Mencken

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Author : H. L. Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Author : H. L. Mencken

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Author : H. L. Mencken

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Author : H. L. Mencken