All H. L. Mencken Quotes
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Funny
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Marriage
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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