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H. L. Mencken

  • H. L. Mencken

    Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English.

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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H. L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

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H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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H. L. Mencken

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

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H. L. Mencken

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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H. L. Mencken

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

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H. L. Mencken

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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H. L. Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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