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Thought

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

- H. L. Mencken

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by H. L. Mencken

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

- H. L. Mencken

Conscience Children School

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

- H. L. Mencken

Knowledge

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

- H. L. Mencken

Decency

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

- H. L. Mencken

Truth

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

- H. L. Mencken

Man Government

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

- H. L. Mencken

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