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H. L. Mencken has 641 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment 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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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second…
— Samuel Johnson
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success…
— Samuel J. Tilden
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of…
— Gautama Buddha
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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
— Publilius Syrus
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No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background…
— Alan Redpath
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
— Denis Diderot
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