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  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. -- 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...
• A prohibitionist is someone one wouldn't want to drink with, even if he did drink.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played.
  There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity....
• 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...