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H L Mencken Inspirational Quotes (501)

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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Whenever A attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon B, A is most likely a scoundrel.
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[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.
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No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
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The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.
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There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
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The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.
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Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
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To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
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The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
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The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.
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Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.
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I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
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If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
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