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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken |
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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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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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