32 Quotes by H. L. Mencken about funny
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop
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