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(1880 - 1956) Henry Louis Mencken, US Critic and Editor.
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Optimist — The sort of man who marries his sister's best friend.
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted his own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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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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Wealth is any income that is at least one hundred dollars a year more than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.
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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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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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