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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Age: 75 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 12
Died: 1956
Died: January 29
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Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
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The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
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Elections are futures markets in stolen property.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.
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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Every man is his own hell.
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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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Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.
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To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse
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If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.
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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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As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.
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The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
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