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H. L. Mencken

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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.


— H. L. Mencken


#auction #election #every #goods #sale

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?


— H. L. Mencken


#institution #live #marriage #want #who

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.


— H. L. Mencken


#always #back #come #commandments #fact

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.


— H. L. Mencken


#his #judge #law #marks #own

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.


— H. L. Mencken


#better #free #i #i believe #i believe that

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.


— H. L. Mencken


#american #american public #broke #ever #nobody

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.


— H. L. Mencken


#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.


— H. L. Mencken


#children #extent #fellow #his #must

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.


— H. L. Mencken


#best #better #campaign #circus #couple

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.


— H. L. Mencken


#always #false #front #humanity #rule






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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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