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H. L. Mencken

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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.


— H. L. Mencken


#fear #happy #haunting #may #puritanism

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.


— H. L. Mencken


#average #average american #formerly #got #much

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.


— H. L. Mencken


#folk #happy #married #men #only

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.


— H. L. Mencken


#ends #mother-in-law #never #visit #whose

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.


— H. L. Mencken


#know #man #married #may

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.


— H. L. Mencken


#babies #begin #cease #come #glands

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.


— H. L. Mencken


#always #begins #bunch #first #first love

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.


— H. L. Mencken


#his #humor #lived #man #men

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.


— H. L. Mencken


#devil #failure #god #long #man

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.


— H. L. Mencken


#man #temptation #weapon #woman






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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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