Strike an average between what a woman thinks of h... -H. L. Mencken

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
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