A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n1
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n2
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n3
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n4
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Mencken's Law 
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n5
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Those who can - do
Those who cannot -- teach
Those who cannot teach -- administrate
		-- Mencken's Law
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For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong 
		-- Mencken's Metalaw
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Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n7
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When a man laughs at his misfortunes, he loses a great many friends
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n8
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sure sign he expects to be paid for it
		-- H.L. Mencken on Murphy n9
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