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Least Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
- There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he…
- 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…
- Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.
- Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None…
- Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
- Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn…
- Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
- On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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