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Quote DB :: Authors :: Henry Mencken :: View Quote View Quote "A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Henry Mencken Listed in: Laws Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4  Rate Quote 1 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Henry Mencken "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?" "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." "The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." Top 5 quotes from Laws "There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." "In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous." "When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws." "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." "Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

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