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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -- H. L. Mencke
• Every man is his own hell. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married. -- H. L. Mencke
• No man, examining his marriage intelligently, can fail to observe that it is compounded, at least in part, of slavery, and that he is the slave.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "The Portable Curmudgeo...
• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. -- H. L. Mencke
• A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that begins to bunch them.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...