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- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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