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H. L. Mencken

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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.


— H. L. Mencken


#about #bachelors #know #married #married men

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.


— H. L. Mencken


#common people #democracy #deserve #get #good

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.


— H. L. Mencken


#common #common sense #decency #everything #favor

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.


— H. L. Mencken


#clear #complex #every #problem #simple

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.


— H. L. Mencken


#cannibals #constituents #dinner #found #had

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


#been #between #caught #difference #even

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.


— H. L. Mencken


#crazy #device #ignorant #making #more

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.


— H. L. Mencken


#about #average #before #between #her

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.


— H. L. Mencken


#another #delusion #differs #love is #woman

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.


— H. L. Mencken


#art #cage #circus #democracy #monkey






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Did you know about H. L. Mencken?

The marriage made national headlines and many were surprised that Mencken who once called marriage "the end of hope" and who was well known for mocking relations between the sexes had gone to the altar. In 1926 he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury that was banned in Boston under the Comstock laws.

A keen cheerleader of scientific progress he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism bigotry populism fundamentalist Christianity creationism organized religion the existence of God and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine. Henry Louis "H. During and after World War I he was sympathetic to the Germans and was very distrustful of British propaganda.

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