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Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

H. L. Mencken
Happiness, Marriage, Men

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken
Happiness, Lying, Home
H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

H. L. Mencken
Happiness, Men, Religion
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken
Love, Happiness, Anniversary
H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

H. L. Mencken
Happiness, Writing, Men
H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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