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Above Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind…
- The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is…
- To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a…
- Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would…
- A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood…
- Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his…
- No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,…
- The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else…
- Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
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