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Henry Louis Mencken has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can…
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
— Thomas Carlyle
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are…
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
— Joseph Joubert
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
— Henry Fielding
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When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It…
— George S. Patton
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
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Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
— Sri Chinmoy
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
— Unknown Author
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