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H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken
Cinta
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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Cinta
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Cinta
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Kehidupan
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Waktu
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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Pernikahan
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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Persahabatan
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Kehidupan
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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Kebahagiaan
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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Pendidikan
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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Kehidupan
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Kehidupan
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Kehidupan
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Sukses
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Kreativitas
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Perjuangan
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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Kreativitas
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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Kreativitas
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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