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As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.
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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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
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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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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
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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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It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
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Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.
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There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
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Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.
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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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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man.
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