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H. L. Mencken
Age: 75 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 12
Died: 1956
Died: January 29
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We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.
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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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The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
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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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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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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
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It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.
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The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.
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The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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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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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
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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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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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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.
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It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.
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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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Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.
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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
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