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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
Belief
H. L. Mencken

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
Evolution
H. L. Mencken

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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Certainty
H. L. Mencken

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Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Legend
H. L. Mencken

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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Colleges and Universities
H. L. Mencken

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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Choice
H. L. Mencken

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
H. L. Mencken

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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Agreement
H. L. Mencken

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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Puritans
H. L. Mencken

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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
Self-respect
H. L. Mencken

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Money
H. L. Mencken

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime and Criminals
H. L. Mencken

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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken

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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Cynics and Cynicism
H. L. Mencken

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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
Eccentricity
H. L. Mencken

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Age and Aging
H. L. Mencken

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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Abuse
H. L. Mencken

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Music
H. L. Mencken

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Lies and Lying
H. L. Mencken

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Power
H. L. Mencken

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Theology
H. L. Mencken

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken

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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Philosophers and Philosophy
H. L. Mencken

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun