There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

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• H. L. Mencken:

  Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

• H. L. Mencken:

  The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

• H. L. Mencken:

  To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young wo

• H. L. Mencken:

  War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller ad

• H. L. Mencken:

  A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch th

• H. L. Mencken:

  The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

• H. L. Mencken:

  I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

• H. L. Mencken:

  Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

• H. L. Mencken:

  A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

• H. L. Mencken:

  Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.