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• All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
  -- Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American -- 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....
• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• 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...
• What the meaning of human life may be I don't know
  I incline to suspect that it has none. -- H. L. Mencke...
• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
  -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare...
• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
  -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare...