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Henry Louis Mencken has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government 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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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
— Victoria Woodhull
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…
— Jean Paul
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If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass…
— Adam Sedgwick
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I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source…
— Ernest Rutherford
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We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining…
— Alice Meynell
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You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it…
— Johnny Knoxville
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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like…
— James Taylor
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Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
— Loretta Lynn
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Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
— William Faulkner
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