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• The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false.
  But there are no certainties. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudice...
• 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...
• I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• 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 horse laugh is worth 10,000 syllogisms. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
  -- H. L. Mencke...