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H. L. Mencken

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.


— H. L. Mencken


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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.


— H. L. Mencken


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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.


— H. L. Mencken


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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.


— H. L. Mencken


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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.


— H. L. Mencken


#secure #self-respect #suspicious #yet

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.


— H. L. Mencken


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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.


— H. L. Mencken


#house #music #opera

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.


— H. L. Mencken


#be prepared #crabs #fifty #good #may

Time stays, we go.


— H. L. Mencken


#stays #time

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.


— H. L. Mencken


#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence






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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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