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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know. Mencken, H.L.
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. Mencken, H.L.
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; there in they are pressed […]
I’ve made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. Mencken, H.L.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely gi Mencken, H.L.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Mencken, H.L.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. Mencken, H.L.
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. Mencken, H.L.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. Mencken, H.L.
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Mencken, H.L.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. Mencken, H.L.
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. Mencken, H.L.
