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I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.
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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It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.
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Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
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The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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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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Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.
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Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.
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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 music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
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Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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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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Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.
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Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
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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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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
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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 objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
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My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.
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