Henry L Mencken Quotes

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Henry L Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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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.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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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.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Biography

American journalist and critic who died in 1956



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