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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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Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
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Miscellaneous
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Miscellaneous
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Government
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Music
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Government
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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Miscellaneous
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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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