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H L Mencken Quotes

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end  (H L Mencken Quotes) Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood  (H L Mencken Quotes) What the meaning of human life may be I don’t know: I incline to suspect that it has none  (H L Mencken Quotes) The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots  (H L Mencken Quotes) All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it  (H L Mencken Quotes) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too  (H L Mencken Quotes) I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time  (H L Mencken Quotes) It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man  (H L Mencken Quotes) The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated  (H L Mencken Quotes) A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground  (H L Mencken Quotes) A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank  (H L Mencken Quotes) In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft  (H L Mencken Quotes) Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse  (H L Mencken Quotes) Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago  (H L Mencken Quotes) Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man  (H L Mencken Quotes) The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor  (H L Mencken Quotes) The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule  (H L Mencken Quotes) Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it  (H L Mencken Quotes) It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull  (H L Mencken Quotes) No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way  (H L Mencken Quotes) My business is not prognosis, but diagnosis. I am not engaged in therapeutics, but in pathology  (H L Mencken Quotes) The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus  (H L Mencken Quotes) The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits  (H L Mencken Quotes) There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read  (H L Mencken Quotes) Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible  (H L Mencken Quotes) A politician is an animal that can sit on the fence and keep both ears to the ground  (H L Mencken Quotes) One of the crying needs of the time is for a suitable burial service for the admittedly damned  (H L Mencken Quotes) Anyone can be accurate and even profound, but it is damned hard work to make criticism charming  (H L Mencken Quotes) Man’s objection to love is that it dies hard; woman’s, that when it is dead, it stays dead  (H L Mencken Quotes) I’ve made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark  (H L Mencken Quotes)
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