H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also earned him attention. The term Menckenian has entered multiple dictionaries to describe anything of or pertaining to Mencken, including his combative rhetorical and prose styles.
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Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
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No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
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Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
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When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.
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If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
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