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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
Henry Mencken
Character and Personality
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
Henry Mencken
Marriage
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Faith
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
Henry Mencken
Ideas
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A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
Henry Mencken
Religion
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Henry Mencken
Miscellaneous
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I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Henry Mencken
Government
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For centuries theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Henry Mencken
Theology
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Henry Mencken
Voting
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
Henry Mencken
Unhappiness
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