Tag: H. L. Mencken
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken
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Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. Mencken
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken