All H. L. Mencken Quotes
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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