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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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Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before…
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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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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine…
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning…
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Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the…
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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report…
— Mark Twain
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Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.
— Susanna Kearsley
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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
— William Allen White
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
— Frederick Douglass
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
— Abigail Van Buren
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
— Alexander Pope
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