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H L Mencken
Say what you...
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten...
Men become civilized,...
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to...
My guess is...
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original...
Human life is...
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they...
Every normal man...
Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting some...
The basic fact...
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an...
No man ever...
No man ever quite believes in any other man.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Nine times out...
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to...
It is a...
It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
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It is hard...
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his...
The chief knowledge...
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth...
Temptation is a...
Temptation is a woman's weapon and a man's excuse.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Penetrating so many...
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its...
Life is a...
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.
Source: In...
Never let inferiors...
Never let inferiors do you a favor -- it will be extremely costly.
Source: In...
The most valuable...
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being...
The man of...
The man of creative imagination pays a ghastly price for all his superiorities and immunities. ....
The smallest atom...
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony.
Source: In...
Man's objection to...
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays...
The chief value...
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is...