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• A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that begins to bunch them.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -- H. L. Mencke
• Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married. -- H. L. Mencke
• Every man is his own hell. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. -- H. L. Mencke
• The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels.
  For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all....
• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
  It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencke...