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• Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. -- H. L. Mencke
• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. -- H. L. Mencke
• 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...
• Christendom is that part of the world where, if a man declare himself to be a Christian, his hearers laugh at him.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• 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...