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Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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 (1880 - 1956)
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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