More from H. L. Mencken

  1. The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to exp…
  2. The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
  3. A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is act…
  4. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
  5. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
  6. Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time. You will never convince the average farmer's mare that the late Maud S. w…
  7. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
  8. 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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