"Never let your inferiors do you a favor……" — H. L. Mencken
"Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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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…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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More Costly Quotes
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
— Henry Adams
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one…
— Bob Beauprez
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've…
— John Boehner
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear.…
— Abdallah II
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants,…
— Unknown Author
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is…
— John Howard Griffin
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine…
— Mark Twain
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my…
— William Shakespeare
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..
— Timothy Keller
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Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
— Richard Neustadt
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