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H. L. Mencken
Age: 75 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 12
Died: 1956
Died: January 29
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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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Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.
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Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.
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The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.
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If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
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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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Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.
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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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The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
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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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Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
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The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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