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H. L. Mencken Quotes

American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Giving Cow Feeling Milk Write Order

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Love Man Special First First Love

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Man Believe Average Even He Ape

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Believe True Mankind Chief Most

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

History Unsuccessful Historian

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.

Truth Lie Free Believe Better Know

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Funny Marriage Live Want Wonderful

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Effort Worth Knowing Explain Terms

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Burn Damage Worse Universities After

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Freedom Price Pay Must Willing

Life is a dead-end street.

Life Life Is A Street Dead-End

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Wrong Morality Human Right Act Must

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