H. L. Mencken Quotes About Love
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No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
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The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
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In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
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The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
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