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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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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
— Raymond Chandler
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the…
— Boris Johnson
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Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a…
— Alex Flinn
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In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open…
— Bill Bryson
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with…
— H. L. Mencken
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The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he…
— Neil Gaiman
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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat…
— Brigham Young
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Phillip looked to Eloise. "Perhaps introductions are in order?" "Oh," Eloise said, gulping. "Yes, of course. These are my brothers." "I'd gathered,"…
— Julia Quinn
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Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the…
— Osamu Dazai
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