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Chief Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
- The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
- Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
- The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly…
- The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions…
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and…
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- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison
- The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when… — Joe Biden
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
- Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses,… — William Blake
- The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — H. P. Blavatsky
- Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. — Napoleon Bonaparte