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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#individuals #made #original #probably #society

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#both #ears #fence #ground #keep

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#dollars #hundred #husband #income #least

The only really happy folk are married women and single men. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#folk #happy #married #men #only

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#goddess #love #love is #merely #mistake

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #every #neat #plausible #problem

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#another #any #beings #bore #capacity

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #comes #excel #experience #itself