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H. L. Mencken Quotes
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers evergathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.
Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
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A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting for something better to come along.
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It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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