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Actually Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable…
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has…
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
- After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
- No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated…
- Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the…
- 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,…
- 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…
- If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and…
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