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H L Mencken Inspirational Quotes (501)

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Justice is what you get when you run out of money.
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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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The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
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The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.
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He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon woman, that she was born so long ago.
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The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.
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I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.
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The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.
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There are two impossibilities in life: just one drink and an honest politician.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
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The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.
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In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
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There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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There are two kinds of music German music and bad music.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.
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When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
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