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H. L. Mencken

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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.


— H. L. Mencken


#fleas #must #professor #theory

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.


— H. L. Mencken


#grow #grows #hard #heart #soft

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.


— H. L. Mencken


#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.


— H. L. Mencken


#believed #deal #foolish #good #good deal

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.


— H. L. Mencken


#fights #man #open #raft #sex

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.


— H. L. Mencken


#heroes #outnumber #soldiers #ten #war

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.


— H. L. Mencken


#believe #descended #hard #man

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.


— H. L. Mencken


#judge #law #marks #own #student

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.


— H. L. Mencken


#age #attained #dignity #legend #lie

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.


— H. L. Mencken


#boast #head #her #looking #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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