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H. L. Mencken

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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.


— H. L. Mencken


#baseball #english #italian #just #main

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.


— H. L. Mencken


#be true #everyone #idea #platitude #true

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.


— H. L. Mencken


#fact #lies #lives #money #overestimated

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.


— H. L. Mencken


#nine #out #right #ten #times

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.


— H. L. Mencken


#chief #costly #follies #mankind #most

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.


— H. L. Mencken


#cure #only

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!


— H. L. Mencken


#died #how #idea #ideas #men

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.


— H. L. Mencken


#fighters #hands #kiss #prize #reminds

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.


— H. L. Mencken


#expects #hear #his #love #man

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.


— H. L. Mencken


#bad man #every #every time #good #man






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Did you know about H. L. Mencken?

The marriage made national headlines and many were surprised that Mencken who once called marriage "the end of hope" and who was well known for mocking relations between the sexes had gone to the altar. In 1926 he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury that was banned in Boston under the Comstock laws.

A keen cheerleader of scientific progress he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism bigotry populism fundamentalist Christianity creationism organized religion the existence of God and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine. Henry Louis "H. During and after World War I he was sympathetic to the Germans and was very distrustful of British propaganda.

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