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H. L. Mencken

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.


— H. L. Mencken


#another #any #beings #bore #capacity

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.


— H. L. Mencken


#always #comes #excel #experience #itself

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.


— H. L. Mencken


#inner #inner voice #looking #might #someone

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.


— H. L. Mencken


#claus #democracy #dream #heaven #only

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.


— H. L. Mencken


#believe #enough #force #i #i believe

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.


— H. L. Mencken


#confess #democracy #enjoy #hence #i

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.


— H. L. Mencken


#bad #because #detest #go #i

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.


— H. L. Mencken


#being #billiards #golf #good #imagine

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.


— H. L. Mencken


#burn #damage #might #universities #worse

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.


— H. L. Mencken


#based #emotion #experience #had #impossible






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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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