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• Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars.
  Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards....
• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956...
• Christendom is that part of the world where, if a man declare himself to be a Christian, his hearers laugh at him.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• No one can earn a million dollars honestly. -- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
• 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...
• Every man is his own hell. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)