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H L Mencken
Self-repect --The secure...
Self-repect --The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
Source: A...
Faith may be...
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Unionism, seldom if...
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of...
I go on...
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Source: Home...
Nothing is so...
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired...
I never lecture,...
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to...
The average male...
The average male gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to...
It doesn't take...
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound...
One may no...
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...
When women kiss...
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
Source: A...
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Source: In Webster's...
Metaphysics is almost...
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the...
The older I...
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Hygiene is the...
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.
Source: Prejudices, The...
The movies today...
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no...
A cynic is...
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Source: In...
Most philosophical treatises...
Most philosophical treatises show the human cerebrum loaded far beyond its Plimsoll mark.
Verse libre; a...
Verse libre; a device for making poetry easier to read and harder to write.
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Injustice is relatively...
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
Source: Prejudices,...
The public, with...
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be...