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Henry Louis Mencken

Thought and Reason
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
4.6 · 17 votes · 75 reads
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Government and Politics
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
4.5 · 19 votes · 127 reads
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Government and Politics
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
3.1 · 43 votes · 57 reads
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Art and Culture
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing
4.7 · 24 votes · 22 reads
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Art and Culture
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
3.2 · 64 votes · 185 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
3.0 · 12 votes · 183 reads
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Defects
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
4.3 · 48 votes · 110 reads
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Various
Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
4.7 · 38 votes · 126 reads
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Feelings
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
4.8 · 32 votes · 105 reads
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Various
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
3.0 · 48 votes · 27 reads
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Society
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
3.0 · 29 votes · 52 reads
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Government and Politics
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
4.4 · 28 votes · 98 reads
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Society
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
3.5 · 5 votes · 74 reads
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Society
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
3.1 · 8 votes · 34 reads
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Society
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
4.2 · 39 votes · 59 reads
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Feelings
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
3.4 · 11 votes · 196 reads
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