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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Problems
H. L. Mencken

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
Husbands
H. L. Mencken

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Heroes and Heroism
H. L. Mencken

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
Belief
H. L. Mencken

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
Evolution
H. L. Mencken

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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Colleges and Universities
H. L. Mencken

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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Choice
H. L. Mencken

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
H. L. Mencken

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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Agreement
H. L. Mencken

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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Puritans
H. L. Mencken

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime and Criminals
H. L. Mencken

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Age and Aging
H. L. Mencken

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Music
H. L. Mencken

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Lies and Lying
H. L. Mencken

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Theology
H. L. Mencken

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Ignorance
Harry Mendelson

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Beauty
Felix Mendelssohn

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love
Karl A. Menninger

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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty
George B. Mere

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Women
George Meredith

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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Biography
George Meredith

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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Passion
George Meredith

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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Duty
George Meredith

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun