All H. L. Mencken Quotes
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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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.
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Marriage
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Funny
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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