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End Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that…
- The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in…
- The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.
- Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next…
- At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of…
- 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,…
- Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks…
- Life is a dead-end street.
- For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel…
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.…
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