H. L. Mencken

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

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Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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