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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

By H. L. Mencken

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

By H. L. Mencken