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Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. - H.L. Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. – H.L. Mencken

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Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. – H.L. Mencken

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

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A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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