Tag: H. L. Mencken
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken
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Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken
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It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. Mencken
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken