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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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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. | H. L. Mencken |
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. | H. L. Mencken |
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. | H. L. Mencken |
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Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the | H. L. Mencken |
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. | H. L. Mencken |
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. | H. L. Mencken |
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My guess is that well over 80 per cent of the human race
goes through life without having a single original thought. | H. L. Mencken |
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Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. | H. L. Mencken |
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. | H. L. Mencken |
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. | H. L. Mencken |
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. | H. L. Mencken |
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. | H. L. Mencken |
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Self respect – the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is
suspicious. | H. L. Mencken |
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The basic fact about human existence
is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. | H. L. Mencken |
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