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H. L. Mencken

On some great and glorious day...

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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H. L. Mencken

All talk of winning the people...

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

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If we assume that man actually...

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

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H. L. Mencken

The only time you have a free ...

The only time you have a free press is when you own one.

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H. L. Mencken

Great artists are modest almos...

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

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H. L. Mencken

Balloonists have an unsurpasse...

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

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H. L. Mencken

Change is not progress....

Change is not progress.

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H. L. Mencken

One yearns unspeakably for a c...

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

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H. L. Mencken

The ideal way to get rid of an...

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

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I'm thoroughly convinced that ...

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

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H. L. Mencken

No one in this world, so far a...

No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They

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H. L. Mencken

I roll out of my couch every m...

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

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H. L. Mencken

The prophesying business is li...

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

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H. L. Mencken

History deals mainly with capt...

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

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H. L. Mencken

The ideal state for a philosop...

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

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H. L. Mencken

The value the world sets upon ...

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

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H. L. Mencken

Philosophy first constructs a ...

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

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H. L. Mencken

After all, the world is not ou...

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

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H. L. Mencken

The worst government is the mo...

The worst government is the most moral.

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H. L. Mencken

The feelings that Beethoven pu...

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

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