Tag: H. L. Mencken
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There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
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Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken