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Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evil #government #i #i believe #i believe that

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#dollars #hundred #husband #income #least

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #every #neat #plausible #problem

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#atlantic ocean #backward #crab #crawling #ever

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#another #better #better time #die #earlier

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#explain #knowing #terms #theology #unknowable

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#go #goes #hen #i #laying