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H L Mencken Inspirational Quotes (501)

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No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
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To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
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A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
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A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.
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I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.
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The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.
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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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Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
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Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
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If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.
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There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
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Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
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No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.
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