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Quotes by H. L. Mencken

"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
By H. L. Mencken
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"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."
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"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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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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"In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
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"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters."
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"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
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"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States."
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"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
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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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"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
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"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
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"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."
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"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
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"Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again."
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"Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses."
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"Wife: a former sweetheart."
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"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient."
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"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
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"Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh."
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"The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy."
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