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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.
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'Hamlet' has been played by 5,000 actors -- no wonder he's crazy.
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An idealist is a man who looks at a rose, and thinks, because it smells sweet, it will make better soup than...
Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
Source: A Book of Prefaces,...
Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy, Sententi?:...
A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he's married.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to...
If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would...
Anyone can be accurate and even profound, but it is damned hard work to make criticism...
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it...
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of...
Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.
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It is inaccurate to say I hate everything, I am strongly in favor of common sense, and common decency. This makes me...
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions...
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life; just after he met his first love, and just after he has left his last...