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H L Mencken
The common argument...
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
If women believed...
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more...
The opera is...
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Source: In
I write in...
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving...
Lying is not...
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the...
There are people...
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are...
No matter how...
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of...
War will never...
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal...
It is hard...
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
Source: In
Man weeps to...
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
I've made it...
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
The chief contribution...
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a...
The fact that...
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply...
Legend : a...
Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Source: In
The cynics are...
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Source: In
The theater. ....
The theater. . . is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously...
The idea that...
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. . . . The average man simply spends his...
The only cure...
The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.
Source: Minority Report: H. L....
Man is a...
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its...
God is the...
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His...