I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes a commitment to monogamy and acknowledges past mistakes influenced by alcohol.
H. L. Mencken's quote reflects a personal commitment to monogamy, indicating that he has refrained from relationships with multiple partners simultaneously for two decades. He admits that his only deviation from this principle occurred when he was under the influence of alcohol, suggesting a belief that true monogamy requires clarity and self-control.
In practice
In discussing the importance of commitment in relationships.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.
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