H. L. Mencken | freedom
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H. L. Mencken | fear
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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H. L. Mencken | faith
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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H. L. Mencken | failure
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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H. L. Mencken | experience
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 | experience
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 | best
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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