Love is like war: easy to begin but very... by H. L. Mencken | We Heart Quotes

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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

- H. L. Mencken

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Examination

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

- H. L. Mencken

Morality Wrong Right

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

- H. L. Mencken

My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought.

- H. L. Mencken

Faith May

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

- H. L. Mencken

Contempt

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

- H. L. Mencken

Fact Will

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

- H. L. Mencken

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