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• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. -- H. L. Mencke
• He who knows not and knows that he knows not is ignorant.
  Teach him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool....
• H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H.
  L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim...
• One of the merits of democracy is quite obvious: it is perhaps the most charming form of government ever devised by man.
  The reason is not far to seek. It is based on propositions that are palpably not true -- and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true....
• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -- H. L. Mencke
• A prohibitionist is someone one wouldn't want to drink with, even if he did drink.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married. -- H. L. Mencke