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H L Mencken Inspirational Quotes (501)

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Lying is not only excusable it is not only innocent it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
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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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We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.
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The first kiss is stolen by the man the last is begged by the woman.
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A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks a woman loses hers after four kisses.
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The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
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Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
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In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
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All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
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Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.
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Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.
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I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.
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The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.
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The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
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The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.
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Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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