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Quotes By author - Starting with H - H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken
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There are 173 quotes for the author H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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Conscience
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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Religion
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Cynicism
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Laws
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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Quotations
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Opinions
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Knowledge
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Miscellaneous
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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
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Miscellaneous
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