I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
From H. L. Mencken
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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