Tag: H.L. Mencken

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freedom H.L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken | freedom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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Fear H.L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken | fear

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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Fear H.L. Mencken

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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Faith H.L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken | faith

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

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Faith H.L. Mencken

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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failure H.L. Mencken

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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experience H.L. Mencken

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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experience H.L. Mencken

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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best H.L. Mencken

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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art H.L. Mencken

Quote from H. L. Mencken | art

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