H. L. Mencken
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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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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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.