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| I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. |
(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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| God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| The only really happy folk are married women and single men. |
(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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| Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. |
(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)
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| The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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| Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses. |
(H. L. Mencken)
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