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Merely Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely…
- To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
- When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians…
- Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
- Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
- To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
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