Category - H L Mencken

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H L Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

– H L Mencken

H L Mencken

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

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H L Mencken

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

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H L Mencken

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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H L Mencken

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

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H L Mencken

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

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H L Mencken

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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H L Mencken

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.

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H L Mencken

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

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H L Mencken

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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H L Mencken

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

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H L Mencken

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

– H L Mencken

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