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Results of search for Author: H. L. Mencken - Page 5 of 17 Showing results 41 to 50 of 168 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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Results from Classic Quotes:

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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