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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience
H. L. Mencken

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith
H. L. Mencken

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Voting
H. L. Mencken

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Action
H. L. Mencken

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Heroes and Heroism
H. L. Mencken

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
Justice
H. L. Mencken

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

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

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Humankind
H. L. Mencken

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Men and Women
H. L. Mencken

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
Safety
H. L. Mencken

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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Opera
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 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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
Morality
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