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Quotes by H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safe"
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evi"
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"Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable."
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is"
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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
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"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies."
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"JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers."
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"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."
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"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
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"A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."
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"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
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"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if t"
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"All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared"
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"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
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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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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and do"
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"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
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"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but"
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"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."
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