H. L. Mencken

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"Something is stifling me - I think it's Mencken."  - a 1930 cartoon caption from The New Yorker.

__ Puritanism  - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
__ Lawyer - One who protects us from robbers by taking away the temptation.
__ Dachshund - A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.
__ Creator - A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
__ Love - The delusion that one woman differs from another.
__ Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
__ A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.
__ Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
__ It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.