Tag: H. L. Mencken
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
H. L. Mencken
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken