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Mencken, US writer, born this date in 1880. 10 quotes from him:
- There is always an easy solution to every problem — neat, plausible and wrong.
- Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too.
- Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- 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.
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
- 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.
- No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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