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Results of search for Author: H. L. Mencken - Page 10 of 11 Showing results 91 to 100 of 101 total quotations found.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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