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H.L. Mencken Wisdom

H. L. Mencken | wisdom

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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H.L. Mencken Wisdom

H. L. Mencken | wisdom

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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H.L. Mencken war

H. L. Mencken | war

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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H.L. Mencken war

H. L. Mencken | war

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

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H.L. Mencken war

H. L. Mencken | war

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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H.L. Mencken war

H. L. Mencken | war

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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H.L. Mencken Truth

H. L. Mencken | truth

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

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H.L. Mencken Truth

H. L. Mencken | truth

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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H.L. Mencken Truth

H. L. Mencken | truth

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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H.L. Mencken Truth

H. L. Mencken | truth

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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