Tag: H. L. Mencken
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
H. L. Mencken
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken