H. L. Mencken Quotes

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.

H. L. Mencken

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  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Wife