Tag: H.L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

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Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

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Never let your inferiors do you a favor – it will be extremely costly.

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

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Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

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Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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