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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

H. L. Mencken

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

H. L. Mencken

Examination

Law

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

H. L. Mencken

Fleas

Theory

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

H. L. Mencken

Religion

Communism

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

H. L. Mencken

Society

Thought

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

H. L. Mencken

Devil

All government, of course, is against liberty.

H. L. Mencken

Government

Liberty

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

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Men

Difference