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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#by the time #candidates #day #each #election

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#about #basic #bore #endless #existence

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#arms #children #conversation #get #love

Honor is simply the morality of superior men. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#honor #morality #simply #superior

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caricatures #cousins #especially #every #every man

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#baseball #english #italian #just #main

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#board #easy #god #gods #imagine

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#made #plausible #prejudice

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#both #ears #fence #ground #keep