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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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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi…
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I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who…
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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut…
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Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human…
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art…
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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…
— Henry Louis Mencken
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The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke,…
— Kenneth R. Miller
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