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H.L. Mencken science

H. L. Mencken | science

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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H.L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken | respect

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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H.L. Mencken religion

H. L. Mencken | religion

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

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H.L. Mencken religion

H. L. Mencken | religion

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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H.L. Mencken relationship

H. L. Mencken | relationship

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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H.L. Mencken politics

H. L. Mencken | politics

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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H.L. Mencken politics

H. L. Mencken | politics

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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H.L. Mencken poetry

H. L. Mencken | poetry

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

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H.L. Mencken peace

H. L. Mencken | peace

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 music

H. L. Mencken | music

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

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