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H L Mencken
All successful newpapers...
All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can...
There is nothing...
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply...
What men value...
What men value in this world is not rights, but privileges.
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A nun, at...
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
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Philosophy consists very...
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I...
I hate all...
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
We must respect...
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that...
It is now...
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still...
Government is actually...
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that...
The one permanent...
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear -- fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he...
No normal man...
No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
It is hard...
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his...
The great artists...
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
It takes a...
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not...
When one hears...
When one hears of a poet past thirty-five he seems somehow unnatural and obscene.
All government, in...
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man.
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Thousands of American...
Thousands of American women know far more about the subconscious than they do about...
Poetry is a...
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
No man is...
No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse gin than he used to drink when he was...
If after I...
If after I depart this vale, you ever remember me, and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink...