Tag: H. L. Mencken
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken