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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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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket:…
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Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.…
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of…
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Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You…
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like…
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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require…
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Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like…
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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show…
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do…
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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