Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.Henry Louis Mencken
All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.
Henry Louis Mencken
If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
Henry Louis Mencken
Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
Henry Louis Mencken
It is a sin to believe evil of others, But it is seldom a mistake.
Henry Louis Mencken
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
Henry Louis Mencken
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