We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
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More quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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